1. |
Monster Machine
03:21
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Answers, to questions that we didn’t ask
Long-term plans for things that will never last
Options, none of which we want to choose
Rules to the game that ensure they will never loose
See how we want to believe
How they try to deceive
Step into the shard of light
Scream, with a voice that they will never hear
Keep us in the dark, in the dark there is nothing to fear
Run, backwards is the only way
All of this is free, but we know we’re gonna have to pay
See how we want to believe
How they try to deceive
Step into the shard of light
Time, it’s the only thing that’s on our side
All of their’s is spent, we will see the things they’re trying to hide
Tamed, the monster and the big machine
Freedom will be ours, the light will bring us all that we need
See how we want to believe
How they try to deceive
Step into the shard of light
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2. |
Crush
03:04
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So full of yourself, unless you’re by yourself
Up for the fight, if the opposition's light-weight
That's what I hate
Fit the group dynamic?
For me it’s too late
Crush me
If you think you can
Crush me
Tell me you’re the man
Crush me
In your way I’m stood
Crush me
Didn’t think you could
Character strength, you do not possess
Dare to walk the tangent, quit the bovine-esq
Push so hard, fit the mould, your life is compressed
Pick a valve, release that stress
Crush me
If you think you can
Crush me
Tell me you’re the man
Crush me
In your way I’m stood
Crush me
Fed through the tube on the airwaves or in black and white
Weekend binge, some escape from your mundane life
Ignore the sense of dread, you can always pick another fight
Integrated harmony, but deep inside you know it ain’t right
You know it ain’t right
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3. |
Add Your Filters
05:05
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Add your filters
Change the feeling
The lie is more appealing
Than the truth
You think you’re stuck here
You think you’re stuck here
But we’ve been placed here
One gift
One life
One chance
Let’s go
You can lie and deceive
You may fool the world but not me
You can float around aimlessly
But you’re not really there
What goes up must come down
But you rarely ever leave the ground
A movie made for my TV
Am I the only one that can see?
One gift
One life
One chance
Let’s go
Ground control to Major Con
Houston I've got a problem
There is never a straight answer from you
Pull the filters over my eyes
An endless stream of telemetry
Maintains the facade that we are free
But I have seen the reality
The system is closed to me
Beyond the wall the miles of snow
The troops ensure we can never go
Did the Admiral find the edge of all
Or did he discover more
One gift
One life
One chance
Let’s go
Ground control to Major Con
Houston I've got a problem
There is never a straight answer from you
Pull the filters over my eyes
You think you’re stuck here
You think you’re stuck here
But we’ve been placed here
One gift
One life
One chance
Let’s go
Ground control to Major Con
Houston I've got a problem
There is never a straight answer from you
Pull the filters over my eyes
Add your filters
Add your filters
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4. |
DNA
03:05
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I saw a leader today
He was old and frail but I could tell
His eyes still had that brightness
His soul still had that darkness
The kind of evil that can get a man
Into the Oval Office
He was on a sofa
I think he was with Ellen
The audience were laughing
At the stories he was telling
And I could not understand
Why they would give this man
The time of day
It was a vaccine drive
But I got to thinking
How many would still be alive
If it wasn’t for him
If it wasn’t for the things that he did
In the pay of the suits
In the shadows hid
Endless celebrity
Beg for conformity
And I had to wonder
Who was this all for
The masses were already hammering
At the clinic doors
I guess this is for me
Surely they can see
That I’m not the kind guy
Who’s ever gonna buy
The shit that they're trying
That they're trying to sell me
Do not acquiesce
I tell myself each day
Do not acquiesce
No matter what they say
Rise above the pressure
Where the atmosphere is thinner
Where the air is so much sweeter
Where my head is so much clearer
Do not acquiesce
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5. |
Stand Your Ground
04:58
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To stand on the edge
Is to know your limits
but to push on
Escape the pull
of the rock face behind you
Is to truly live
And so, here we are, suspended
We await gravity’s grip
The fall that follows
A brave and selfless act
Stand your ground
(hold your position)
Stand your ground
When all hope has fled from the eyes of the men that surround you
Stand your ground
Friend? Foe?
It’s so hard to tell these days
we all share
The look of a child that’s lost
Is it any wonder?
We have lived and died
Through dreadful times
Elders failed
To seize the chance
Failed to read the signs
Stand your ground
(hold your position)
Stand your ground
When all hope has fled from the eyes of the men that surround you
Stand your ground
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6. |
These Days
05:08
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In the darkness, you will hold my hand
Help me to understand the gravity of all that we face
In the light, you will be my friend,
On you I will depend, together we will reclaim our space
Things may get complicated
Masses indoctrinated
An uphill struggle escalated
But we will push on
These are the days that we talked about
The days that they wrote about
These days we all need to stand tall
This is the time that we feared to see
This time may be the death of me
I turn to you, you take my hand and say
It’ll be ok
Lines drawn in the sand
Times like these we understand
The history that we must embrace
Stand, though you’ll want to run
The fight for freedom has begun
When I feel weak I think of your face
We may be segregated
Hopes and dreams annihilated
In the end we'll be vindicated
And we will push on
These are the days that we talked about
The days that they wrote about
These days we all need to stand tall
This is the time that we feared to see
This time could be the end of me
I turn to you, you take my hand and say
It’ll be ok
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7. |
Everything's Lost
04:58
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When the world it needs direction
You're the first to lend your voice
But we didn't even get to vote
You left us with no choice
You told us all about your plans
But few took any notice
You have the leaders in your hands
We'll own nothing and feel hopeless
And we all fall in line
Tell ourselves it will be just fine
But this will be the time
When we quietly lost everything
With the lying and the thieving
And the hatred that you’re feeling
With the power that you’re wielding
You will shut down all dissent
And we all fall in line
Tell ourselves it will be just fine
But this will be the time
When we quietly lost everything
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8. |
Material Gain
06:52
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Wrap myself in the brand names from the west
Need to look like that to be the best
Be all you can be they told me on my TV
I need the truth but go easy on reality
Every day the news comes through
Into our living rooms red, green and blue
Although I'll close my eyes and throw myself into denial
I know this to be true
Then I'm taken to the cold place
Plucked from the warmth of material gain
And every time I see it
I don't need to feel it
But it plays on my mind all the same
Drive this car, wear these jeans
A whole new market, focus on the pre-teens
Tune in to cartoons but watch what's in between
Hey look I have no spots and my teeth are really clean
Every day the news comes through
Into our living rooms red, green and blue
Although I'll close my eyes and throw myself into denial
I know this to be true
Then I'm taken to the cold place
Plucked from the warmth of material gain
And every time I see it
I don't need to feel it
But it plays on my mind all the same
Take me to the cold place
Take me from material gain
Make me see it
Make me feel it
It will play on my mind all the same
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9. |
The Tree
03:52
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The seat within the tree
It was explained to me
Has been a place of reverence
Throughout the centuries
Here is where she rested
Her long days work was done
Children sit about the bows
And enjoy the summer sun
But what of today
Modern life it strips away
The soul of our being
Shifts emphasis away from seeing
All that is good
All that is natural
We are dragged down to a level
Far beneath our potential
The man who took the rabbits
And stole away the stars
The Crone who's rocks fell from her apron
They built this world of ours
The tree that grows through the centre
The waters above and below
The elders who tell their stories
To the ones that want to know
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10. |
Twist It
04:58
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I was a wreck, I must confess
I had spun off the track, could see no way out of the mess
Then you grabbed me by the scruff of the neck
Gave me strength, showed me that I wasn’t done yet
So how am I supposed to react
You sold me dreams, now it seems
You’ve turned your back
Well, I can tell you that I feel so irate
The love that I felt is slowly turning to hate
Now that you’ve
Stuck in the knife
Why don’t you twist it
I wrote a letter, telling you the path you should take
Did you read it? Perhaps it came a little too late
Too late to change your mind
Perhaps you were blinded by the pull of the all powerful machine
Can you feel it coursing through your viens
Unstoppable stealth
An ever tangible change
Writing dross that’s as bland as it is tame
Desperate for someone to blame
Now that you’ve
Stuck in the knife
Why don’t you twist it
Look in the glass, do you recognise this broken shell of a man
A yes man, a corporate man
A man who tried so hard not to fit in, they just cast a new mould
And sold it to the mainstream
And wouldn’t you know it, they bought it
And you sold so much, you believed it.
But I didn’t buy it, and I didn’t believe it.
And I hate what it’s become, and I hate what you’ve become
But you’ve seen the figures, you’ve crunched the sums
It’s hard to stay mad at the machine
when you’re life becomes a dream
And the dream that was your life
Is lost, along with the fight
So now that you’ve stuck in the knife
Why don’t you twist it.
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11. |
Sleeveless Heart
04:04
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You tried to hide it
But I saw it in your eyes
That day we gazed at the open box of commitment
I could tell your heart was on the outside
I denied it at first
I guess you’d call it disbelief
But to see it pumping on the floor, having taken a fall, like a stone
When it should have been on your sleeve
Your arm is soaked in blood
You’ve worn it for so long
You say your heart’s no longer in it
You say your fight has truly gone
Nature hates a vacuum
And the holes we leave behind will not prevail
But what of us, as we lurch from chaos to disarray
In your wake, we fail
Fail to seize the moment
Fail to deal with the situation
Fail to beat the system
Fail to reach the shard of light
Your arm is soaked in blood
You’ve worn it for so long
You say your heart’s no longer in it
You say your fight has truly gone
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12. |
A Little Bit Of God
03:25
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Life is tough
Or a breeze
Ride high or you're on your knees
The curve balls we take
Are the things that can make or break us
Where we’re born
How we’re raised
These things will define
How we move through the maze
From our youth to the end of our days
We live the dreams of Gods
We experience all they cannot
And when our time has come
We close our eyes
And a little bit of God wakes up
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Dave Ware England, UK
Family guy, conspiracy theorist and home recording artist.
What's my genre? I have no idea... Er... Prog / Orchestral / Electronic / Angry Synthwave
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